Youth offer perspectives on reconciliation for NCTR webinar

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) is hosting a webinar on International Youth Day to look at what the Calls to Action mean to Indigenous youth in Canada. The panel will examine the role of Indigenous youth in educating, promoting, and advancing the work of the TRC Calls to Action and the principles of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

• Kevin Lamoureux (Host) is a professor at the University of Winnipeg, where he has worked on Indigenous issues such as the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
• Marshall Jack Morrisseau is an undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba studying law, and an ambassador for the We Matter Campaign.
• Aisinai’pi June is Kainai and Blackfoot from Alberta, and previously worked on the CRE Reconciliation Initiative.
• Jenna Robar is a young L’nu/Mi’kmaw woman from Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, and has worked with organizations such as the United Nations Association of Canada and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.